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BOB SPEAR, 93, is a self-taught naturalist and woodcarver who has used both skills to fill a barn on a back road in Huntington with hundreds of lifelike carvings of Vermont’s birds. School kids and college students use the Birds of Vermont Museum as a learning lab, while bird-loving tourists leave impressed with Spear’s skill.
Photo by Candace Page
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Candace Page for In This State </div>
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HUNTINGTON &mdash; Bob Spear often stood this summer, staring silently at the disaster wrought by a July flood. A rainstorm had ripped a deep ravine outside his Birds of Vermont Museum, destroying the entrance walkway and cutting off access to bird-watching trails in the woods.</p>
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Trees tipped precariously over the edge of the ravine, its bottom a tumble of gravel, exposed culverts and debris. Repairs may cost $40,000 or more, money the museum doesn&rsquo;t have.</p>
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We know that squirrels make the most of fall&rsquo;s plenty by hoarding nuts for the winter, but the fact that birds also store, or cache, food goes largely unappreciated. Through clever observation and experiments, biologists have found that food caching (from the French <em>cacher,</em> &ldquo;to hide&rdquo;) has developed to a high art in some birds.</p>
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AN ARMADILLO FOUND dead in Bristol last week has residents wondering how it could have made its way to Vermont.
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BRISTOL &mdash; It is unfortunately not unusual to encounter dead critters along the rural roads of Vermont. Skunks, raccoons, squirrels porcupines seem to be the primary victims, with the occasional deer mixed in.</p>
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But nothing could have prepared Bristol resident Carl and Caroline Engvall for the sight they witnessed in their Cold Spring Road yard last Thursday: A dead armadillo.</p>
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